According to DDOT’s Mike Goodno, New Hampshire Avenue will get contraflow bike lanes in the next year, enabling bicyclists to ride toward or away from U Street. New Hampshire is plenty wide and much safer than nearby major streets, making this a perfect place for these lanes and legalizing the behavior for which MPD recently ticketed people.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.